Category: Extensions

Firefox for Android has an interesting homescreen: it's divided in multiple panels (or tabs), which by default contain your history, bookmarks, recently closed tabs, reading list, synced tabs and the new-tab tiles. Since a while extensions can add their own panels. Even though the API is pretty simple it's not as comfortable as Add-on SDK …

Developing an extension that runs just in one browser is already an endeavour. If you for some reason have to create an extension that works with multiple browsers the horror gets real. Thanks to frameworks like BabelExt it might just be a lot easier. BabelExt is a framework, that allows you to write code from …

As I know the Add-on SDK quite well, I decided to teach the basics of it to my local Mozilla community. Of course, the presentation does not contain everything I said, so don't expect to understand everything. I do have some notes in my .ODP file, which you can download directly from here. No guarantee …